Highlander Tools is a collection of productivity-enhancing utilities designed to simplify common Adobe InDesign tasks and improve day-to-day efficiency.

Rather than relying on multiple scripts, manual workarounds, or repetitive processes, Highlander Tools brings together a range of practical functions in a single, easy-to-use plugin. Whether you are creating calendars, generating hyperlinks, managing swatches, resizing content, adjusting layouts, or cleaning up documents, Highlander Tools helps you complete tasks faster and with greater consistency.

Designed for designers, marketing teams, communications professionals, bid teams, and in-house publishing departments, the plugin focuses on solving real production challenges rather than adding unnecessary complexity. Each tool has been created to save time, reduce errors, and improve workflow efficiency.

Key Benefits

• Save time on repetitive production tasks
• Improve consistency across documents
• Reduce manual editing and formatting
• Automate common InDesign workflows
• Simple to use with no scripting knowledge required
• Continually expanded with new productivity tools

Developed by Highlander Training, a specialist Adobe training provider with over 25 years of experience, Highlander Tools reflects the practical workflows and challenges encountered by real-world InDesign users every day.

Create Professional Calendars in Seconds

Creating calendars manually in Adobe InDesign can be time-consuming and prone to formatting errors. The Calendar Generator automates the entire process, creating fully formatted calendars directly within your document.

Choose custom date ranges, define the start day of the week, and automatically generate calendars complete with table styles, paragraph styles, swatches, and formatting options. Whether you need a simple monthly calendar or a complex multi-month layout, the Calendar Generator can save hours of manual work.

Key Benefits

• Generate calendars for any date range
• Automatically create supporting styles and swatches
• Consistent formatting throughout the document
• Save significant production time
• Ideal for planners, brochures, newsletters and publications

Create Multiple Colour Swatches Instantly

Adding large numbers of colour swatches manually can be a repetitive and frustrating task. The Colour Swatch Generator allows you to create multiple swatches in a single operation using industry-standard colour values.

Simply paste or enter colour values and Highlander Tools will generate the corresponding swatches automatically. CMYK, RGB, HEX and LAB colour formats are all supported, making it easy to work with brand guidelines, design systems and externally supplied colour specifications.

Key Benefits

• Create multiple swatches at once
• Supports CMYK, RGB, HEX and LAB values
• Reduces manual data entry
• Improves accuracy and consistency
• Ideal for brand and corporate documents

Automatically Create Hyperlinks from URLs

Manually converting website addresses into hyperlinks can be a tedious process, especially in long documents containing dozens or hundreds of links. The Hyperlink Generator automatically identifies URLs and converts them into fully functional InDesign hyperlinks.

This can dramatically reduce the time required to prepare interactive PDFs, digital publications and online documents while helping to ensure consistency and accuracy.

Key Benefits

• Automatically detects website addresses
• Creates InDesign hyperlinks instantly
• Saves time in large documents
• Reduces missed or incorrect links
• Perfect for interactive PDFs and digital publications